To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

What does it do? It accelerates and collides particles at 99.99% of the speed of light. And maybe, it could produce the very ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

Kemi Badenoch has suggested council tax rises could be needed after claiming local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black ...